Faculty Profiles

Alexander Stremitzer

Professor of Law

B.Sc., Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, 2000M.I.M.(C.E.M.S.), HEC-Paris, 2000Ph.D., Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, 2003J.D., University of Vienna, 2006

Before joining UCLA's faculty in 2011, Alexander Stremitzer was assistant professor of economics at the University of Bonn and visiting assistant professor at Yale Law School and in Yale University’s economics department. He also spent extended research visits at NYU Law School, ETH Zurich and Columbia University's Center for Contracts and Economic Organization.

His research and teaching interests include theoretical and experimental law and economics, contract theory, and comparative law. In addition to works in German, Professor Stremitzer’s recent scholarly work in English has been published in several journals including the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, The American Review of Law & Economics, The Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, and The Yale Law Journal.

Professor Stremitzer earned a Masters’ degree in International Management at HEC-Paris in 2000, and in 2003, received a Ph.D., with distinction, in Business Economics from Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Professor Stremitzer earned a J.D. in 2006 from the University of Vienna.